#happiness

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. ↗

— James Smithson

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If you want to be happy, be. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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Happiness is a direction, not a place. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness. ↗

— Louise Hart

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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. ↗

— Euripedes

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Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

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